BBC – The Big Read

The Big Read was a survey on books carried out by the BBC in the United Kingdom in 2003, where over three quarters of a million votes were received from the British public to find the nation’s best-loved novel of all time. The year-long survey was the biggest single test of public reading taste to date,and culminated with several programmes hosted by celebrities, advocating their favorite books.

If my maths worked correctly (rarely does) I have read 59/100 61/100 books from this list & reviewed only few… What about you? Which ones do you think I should read next? Are there books here you think I should skip ?

Oh man… I’ve only read a little over 10 of these. I’m not a huge fan of the classics though and other books you generally read in school I somehow didn’t have to.
I’ll definitely have to put more on my list though!

I hated reading books for school…which is why most of the Finnish classics are kind of unknown to me 🙈
Over analyzing them kills all the joy you might have had if you didn’t read them because of some course.

Classics are very often overrated :) I think one should read what one loves. In my case that would be fantasy, scifi and ya, but I guess I was very bored when I was younger so I managed to read some of these. If you haven’t read His Dark Materials, I would really recommend that one for you.

I agree with you! Reading for school took the joy out of reading for me.
I have read His Dark Materials and I absolutely loved it… probably time for a re-read soon! I’m also very into fantasy & sci-fi so, I probably won’t read much more on this list unless I push myself haha.

Not sure what’s the point in making poor kids read something like Inferno by Dante 😂 Glad you loved it! Should re-read it soon myself… Well haha some say it’s good to get out of your comfort zone (I guess yes if you have the time).

Great list, to which I also occasionally refer to. I read quite few novels these days as my interests lie elsewhere, however some of these classics carry around so much story even outside the book that it would be good to cross off one from this list every once in a while. For this summer for me it would be definitely Les Miserables by Victor Hugo.

It is, I think it’s very important to read what you like, yet it’s just as important to read everything. All genres,both fiction & nonfiction because if you don’t, you’re stuck in something specific and I think it limits your thinking. Haha luckily a lifetime is a long time so 100 books from this list is do-able.

I’m in love with Les Misérables and the way Hugo writes his book. Hope you like it!